So, what would you do if you found big money?

A stranger in front of you unknowingly drops $2,300 in front of you. What do you do?

That's the question the Daily Times posed to readers Wednesday afternoon via our new favorite tool, social media. The question, of course, was derived from a real-life situation that occurred in Upper Darby.

In that case, Stephanie Paparo was arrested Tuesday for allegedly stealing $2,300 in cash after a man unknowingly dropped a wad of money in a Wawa April 1.

Unsurprisingly, in our hypothetical world, most respondents said they would have picked up the cash and returned it to its rightful owner.

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"You give it back!" wrote Michelle Brackin on Facebook. "The fact that this question even needs to be asked is what's wrong with society today."

Mary Sylvester added that she would have returned the money, because, well, she has done so previously.

"This happened to me in a grocery store and I never hesitated," Sylvester wrote. "And the young father with kids who dropped it was so relieved."

A similar incident happened to Lorraine Mongiello, who said a German tourist once dropped a small bag of money at Disney World. Mongiello said she and a friend caught up to the tourist and returned the bag.

"They were so thankful but we wouldn't even think of taking anything from them even though they offered," Mongiello wrote. "It was the RIGHT thing to do!"

At least one reader, Tom Dougherty of Clifton Heights, said he wasn't sure exactly what he'd do.

"I'm not going to lie," Dougherty wrote in an email. "If someone unknowingly dropped $2,000 in front of me, I'd seriously consider scooping it up and taking it. I'd like to think I would pick it up, and return it to the person, but that's a sizable (amount) of cash that I could really, really use. So, to answer truthfully, I'd probably end up taking it."